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But you could already be charged under existing laws for those eventualities. The seat belt law takes it a step further, and makes it an offense even if literally none of those things happen. In fact, let's look at the statute and break some things down:

C. Any person who violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of twenty-five dollars to be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Literary Fund. No assignment of demerit points shall be made under Article 19 of Chapter 3 ( 46.2-489 et seq.) of this title and no court costs shall be assessed for violations of this section.
D. A violation of this section shall not constitute negligence, be considered in mitigation of damages of whatever nature, be admissible in evidence or be the subject of comment by counsel in any action for the recovery of damages arising out of the operation, ownership, or maintenance of a motor vehicle, nor shall anything in this section change any existing law, rule, or procedure pertaining to any such civil action.
E. A violation of this section may be charged on the uniform traffic summons form.
F. No citation for a violation of this section shall be issued unless the officer issuing such citation has cause to stop or arrest the driver of such motor vehicle for the violation of some other provision of this Code or local ordinance relating to the operation, ownership, or maintenance of a motor vehicle or any criminal statute.

So it's not even a misdemeanor, merely a a way to collect revenue, it cannot be enforced unless you were stopped for something else, and cannot even be considered a factor in trials for larger offenses.

TLDR: the state of Virginia doesn't care about you flying through the air, they just want an excuse to fine you.

#DreamJobGoals

I hate those comments too. Downvote them to UVA's football ranking. But you mentioned nothing positive about people generating discussion on her qualifications or excitement over her hire and fit at VT (both of which are actively occurring above).

I'm going to address something that may not be popular. A lot of people will not like that we have hired a woman to such a high position at a P5 school. Those people are bigots. Forget them. Who we hired was a qualified candidate who has great references, fits with the culture of Virginia Tech, and already knows some of the staff.

Don't tolerate any of this shit from Hokies and respectfully tell those outside of the program to shut the hell up.

Found a study from UM identifying average deceleration rates of various vehicles at 60 MPH without using ABS. Comes out to be about .8g. If at any given moment while operating a vehicle we could be assured that a person had sufficient grip on the steering wheel to support 4/5s of their body weight, and that the windshield was reinforced enough that in the event of a collision the person would be contained inside their vehicle, and we knew that the cost of any additional injuries that come about from not wearing a seatbelt wouldn't be pushed back onto the general population, then yes I would be prepared to admit that seatbelt laws are frivolous.

We'll find out tomorrow. New polls come out on Tuesdays.

I am ashamed of the sexist comments in this thread, I didn't paint the community with a brush.

There was also a lot of praise for her being a qualified hire that fit the culture. You can't stop people from posting dumb stuff. You have a little button that sends a message that you enjoy and approve of someone's content and idea and one that says cut that shit out we won't stand for that. Use them and don't paint the community with one brush.

Dumb

That's not true. Guardrail, for example, is designed to deflect a driver. The lateral g force could easily throw you out of your seat and then be redirected into traffic, where if wearing your seatbelt, you could likely control the vehicle, at least to some degree.

You know how on that rare occaision you may have to stop suddenly and your body "falls" forward against the seat belt?

Yeah, that's modern tires in modern cars stopping your vehicle easily in a situation where the seat belt is the only thing keeping your teeth from being knocked out by your steering wheel, or worse.

The offensive linemen need to go make their snow angels! Also they're prolly concerned about when the ice will start.

It's a shame that people went there after Alex wrote such a nice article about an obviously successful and qualified person.